1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
143 This change corrects that bug.
145 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
156 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
189 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
193 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
203 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
205 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
211 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
212 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
213 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
215 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
217 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
220 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
222 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
224 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
226 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
227 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
229 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
230 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
232 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
233 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
235 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
236 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
237 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
239 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
241 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
242 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
244 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
246 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
248 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
249 non-compliant senders.
250 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
252 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
253 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
254 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
256 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
257 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
258 in spool file corruption.
260 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
261 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
262 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
265 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
266 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
267 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
269 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
270 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
272 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
274 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
276 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
278 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
279 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
280 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
282 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
283 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
284 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
285 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
287 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
288 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
290 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
291 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
292 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
293 resolver implementation change.
295 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
296 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
298 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
300 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
302 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
303 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
305 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
306 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
308 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
309 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
311 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
312 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
313 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
314 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
315 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
317 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
319 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
320 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
321 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
323 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
325 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
326 read-only, out of scope).
327 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
329 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
330 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
331 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
332 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
334 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
336 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
337 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
338 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
339 real issues in debug logging.
341 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
342 assignment on my part. Fixed.
344 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
345 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
346 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
348 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
349 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
350 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
353 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
354 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
356 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
357 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
358 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
359 needs to override this, it can.
361 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
362 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
363 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
365 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
366 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
367 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
368 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
370 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
376 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
377 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
379 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
381 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
384 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
385 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
387 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
388 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
389 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
391 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
392 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
393 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
394 not safe for signals.
396 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
397 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
398 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
399 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
402 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
404 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
405 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
406 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
407 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
408 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
410 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
411 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
412 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
413 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
414 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
415 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
417 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
418 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
419 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
420 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
422 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
423 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
424 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
425 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
427 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
428 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
429 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
430 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
431 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
432 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
433 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
434 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
435 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
437 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
438 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
439 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
440 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
442 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
443 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
444 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
445 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
446 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
447 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
448 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
449 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
450 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
451 details in the main documentation.
453 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
455 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
457 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
458 repository when doing development or release builds.
460 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
461 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
463 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
464 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
467 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
469 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
470 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
472 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
473 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
475 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
476 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
478 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
479 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
481 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
482 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
484 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
486 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
489 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
490 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
491 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
493 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
495 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
497 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
498 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
504 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
506 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
507 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
509 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
511 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
513 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
516 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
517 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
519 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
520 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
522 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
525 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
528 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
529 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
531 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
532 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
533 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
534 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
536 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
537 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
543 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
546 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
547 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
548 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
550 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
551 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
553 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
554 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
555 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
557 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
558 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
560 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
561 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
563 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
564 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
566 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
567 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
569 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
570 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
572 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
575 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
576 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
578 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
579 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
581 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
582 SQL string expansion failure details.
583 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
585 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
586 Patch from Simon Arlott.
588 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
589 extern declarations in function scope.
590 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
592 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
593 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
594 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
597 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
598 Patch from Mark Zealey.
600 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
601 Patch from Mark Zealey.
603 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
604 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
606 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
607 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
609 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
610 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
613 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
615 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
617 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
618 Patch by Simon Arlott
620 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
621 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
627 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
628 consequences so log it to the panic log.
630 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
631 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
633 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
635 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
636 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
637 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
639 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
640 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
641 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
643 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
644 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
645 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
646 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
648 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
649 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
650 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
651 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
653 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
654 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
655 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
658 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
661 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
662 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
663 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
664 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
665 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
671 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
672 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
673 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
675 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
676 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
678 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
680 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
682 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
684 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
686 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
688 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
689 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
690 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
691 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
693 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
694 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
695 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
696 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
697 more caution in buffer sizes.
699 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
701 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
703 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
705 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
707 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
709 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
711 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
713 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
714 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
715 ignore trailing whitespace.
717 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
719 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
722 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
723 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
725 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
726 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
727 Notification from John Horne.
729 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
732 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
733 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
736 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
739 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
740 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
741 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
743 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
744 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
745 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
748 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
749 option (effectively making it always true).
751 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
752 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
754 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
755 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
757 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
758 run-time user, instead of root.
760 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
761 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
763 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
764 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
767 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
768 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
769 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
771 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
773 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
779 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
780 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
783 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
784 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
787 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
788 Patch from Alain Williams
790 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
792 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
793 Patch from Andreas Metzler
795 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
796 Patch from Kirill Miazine
798 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
800 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
802 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
803 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
805 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
807 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
809 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
810 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
811 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
813 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
814 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
816 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
817 Patch by Simon Arlott
819 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
820 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
826 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
828 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
830 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
832 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
834 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
840 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
841 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
843 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
844 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
847 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
848 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
849 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
851 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
852 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
854 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
855 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
856 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
857 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
859 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
860 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
861 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
863 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
865 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
867 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
868 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
870 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
872 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
873 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
874 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
875 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
877 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
878 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
880 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
882 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
884 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
885 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
887 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
888 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
890 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
891 that they are available at delivery time.
893 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
895 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
896 incoming_port log selectors.
898 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
899 setting expands to an empty string.
901 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
904 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
905 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
907 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
908 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
910 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
911 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
913 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
914 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
916 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
917 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
919 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
921 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
922 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
924 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
925 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
927 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
929 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
930 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
932 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
934 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
936 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
939 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
940 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
942 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
943 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
945 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
946 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
948 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
949 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
951 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
952 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
954 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
955 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
957 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
958 plus update to original patch.
960 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
962 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
963 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
965 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
967 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
969 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
971 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
973 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
974 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
976 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
977 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
979 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
980 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
982 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
983 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
985 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
987 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
989 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
991 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
997 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
998 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
999 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1001 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1002 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1003 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1004 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1005 build errors in sieve.c.
1007 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1008 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1009 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1011 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1013 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1015 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1017 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1023 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1025 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1026 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1027 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1028 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1029 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1030 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1031 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1032 for iplsearch lookups.
1034 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1035 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1036 previously such lookups could never work.
1038 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1039 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1040 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1042 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1045 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1046 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1047 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1048 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1049 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1050 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1052 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1053 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1055 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1056 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1057 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1058 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1059 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1060 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1062 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1065 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1067 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1068 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1071 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1072 by clients under certain conditions.
1074 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1075 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1077 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1079 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1080 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1082 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1084 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1086 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1088 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1089 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1091 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1093 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1094 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1096 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1098 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1100 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1101 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1102 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1103 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1105 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1106 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1107 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1109 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1110 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1112 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1114 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1116 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1118 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1119 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1120 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1126 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1127 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1130 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1131 issue a MAIL command.
1133 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1135 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1137 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1138 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1139 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1140 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1141 item. This has been fixed.
1143 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1144 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1146 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1147 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1149 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1150 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1151 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1153 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1155 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1156 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1157 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1158 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1159 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1161 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1162 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1163 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1165 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1166 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1167 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1168 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1170 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1172 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1174 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1175 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1176 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1177 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1178 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1180 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1182 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1183 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1184 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1187 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1189 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1191 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1193 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1195 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1197 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1198 no_callout_flush is set.
1200 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1201 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1202 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1205 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1207 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1208 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1209 other ACL rejections are.
1211 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1212 with slight modification.
1214 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1215 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1217 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1218 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1221 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1222 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1224 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1226 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1227 expansion side effects.
1229 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1230 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1231 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1234 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1235 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1236 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1238 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1239 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1240 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1241 were accidentally chopped off.
1243 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1244 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1245 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1246 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1247 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1248 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1249 pipelining has not been advertised.
1251 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1253 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1254 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1255 This has been fixed.
1257 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1258 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1259 reported on Solaris.
1261 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1262 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1263 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1264 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1265 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1266 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1267 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1269 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1272 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1274 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1276 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1277 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1278 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1279 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1280 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1281 criteria to be more general.
1283 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1284 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1285 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1286 host_all_ignored option.
1288 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1289 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1290 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1291 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1292 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1293 is what is supposed to happen).
1295 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1296 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1297 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1298 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1299 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1302 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1303 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1304 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1305 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1306 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1307 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1310 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1312 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1313 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1315 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1316 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1318 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1320 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1322 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1323 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1324 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1325 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1326 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1327 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1328 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1329 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1330 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1331 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1332 least in a lot of common cases.
1334 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1335 advertised in response to EHLO.
1341 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1342 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1344 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1345 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1347 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1348 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1349 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1351 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1352 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1353 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1354 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1355 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1361 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1362 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1365 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1366 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1367 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1369 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1370 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1371 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1372 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1373 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1374 rather than extend the field.
1380 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1381 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1382 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1383 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1386 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1387 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1388 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1390 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1391 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1392 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1394 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1395 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1396 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1399 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1400 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1401 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1402 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1403 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1404 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1405 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1406 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1407 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1408 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1409 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1411 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1414 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1415 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1416 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1417 ignores EPIPE as well.
1419 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1420 (quoted-printable decoding).
1422 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1423 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1425 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1427 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1429 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1431 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1432 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1434 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1437 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1438 miscellaneous code fixes
1440 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1443 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1444 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1445 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1446 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1447 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1448 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1449 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1450 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1452 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1453 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1454 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1455 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1457 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1458 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1459 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1460 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1461 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1462 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1463 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1464 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1465 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1467 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1470 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1471 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1472 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1473 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1474 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1475 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1476 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1477 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1479 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1480 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1483 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1484 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1485 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1486 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1487 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1488 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1489 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1490 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1491 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1492 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1493 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1494 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1495 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1497 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1498 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1499 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1500 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1501 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1502 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1503 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1505 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1506 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1507 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1508 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1509 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1510 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1511 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1512 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1513 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1514 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1516 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1517 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1518 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1519 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1520 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1522 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1523 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1524 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1525 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1526 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1527 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1528 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1530 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1531 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1532 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1533 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1534 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1535 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1538 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1539 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1540 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1543 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1544 if any retry times were supplied.
1546 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1547 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1548 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1550 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1552 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1554 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1555 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1556 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1557 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1558 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1559 before) are ignored.
1561 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1562 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1564 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1565 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1566 committing the later change.]
1568 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1569 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1570 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1571 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1572 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1573 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1574 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1575 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1576 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1578 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1579 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1580 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1581 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1582 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1583 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1584 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1585 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1586 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1588 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1589 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1590 hammering the server.
1592 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1593 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1595 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1597 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1598 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1599 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1601 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1602 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1603 one case where this was not true.
1605 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1606 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1607 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1608 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1611 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1612 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1613 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1614 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1615 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1616 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1617 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1618 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1619 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1622 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1623 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1624 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1625 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1627 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1628 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1630 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1631 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1632 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1634 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1636 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1638 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1640 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1641 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1642 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1643 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1645 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1646 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1648 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1649 be meaningful with "accept".
1651 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1652 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1654 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1655 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1656 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1658 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1659 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1660 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1661 there is data to show.
1662 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1664 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1665 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1666 as well as the number of messages.
1668 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1669 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1670 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1672 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1673 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1674 have a flag are now skipped.
1676 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1677 Added the -emptyok flag.
1679 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1680 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1682 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1683 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1684 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1686 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1689 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1690 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1692 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1694 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1695 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1697 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1699 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1700 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1701 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1702 contravention of the specifications.
1704 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1705 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1706 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1708 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1709 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1710 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1712 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1714 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1715 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1716 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1717 some point in the past.
1719 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1720 transport during callout processing was broken.
1722 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1723 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1725 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1726 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1728 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1729 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1731 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1737 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1738 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1740 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1741 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1742 there is data to show.
1743 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1745 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1746 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1748 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1749 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1751 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1752 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1754 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1755 submissions from trusted users.
1757 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1758 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1760 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1761 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1762 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1763 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1764 there is now a framework to start from.
1766 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1767 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1768 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1770 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1772 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1774 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1776 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1777 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1778 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1780 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1783 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1784 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1785 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1787 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1788 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1789 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1792 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1793 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1794 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1795 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1796 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1798 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1799 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1801 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1803 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1804 operations in malware.c.
1806 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1809 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1810 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1811 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1814 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1815 statements to "add_header".
1817 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1818 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1820 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1821 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1824 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1828 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1829 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1830 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1833 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1834 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1836 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1837 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1839 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1840 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1841 any possible encoding problems.
1843 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1844 but not after initializing Perl.
1846 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1847 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1848 apparently, which is not desirable.
1850 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1853 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1856 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1858 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1859 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1860 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1861 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1863 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1864 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1865 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1867 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1868 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1869 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1872 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1873 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1874 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1875 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1876 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1882 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1883 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1885 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1888 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1889 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1890 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1891 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1892 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1893 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1894 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1895 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1898 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1900 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1901 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1902 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1904 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1905 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1906 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1909 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1910 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1912 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1913 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1914 option (which defaults to 0600).
1916 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1918 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1919 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1920 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1921 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1922 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1923 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1924 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1926 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1932 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1933 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1934 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1935 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1936 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1937 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1940 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1941 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1943 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1945 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1946 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1947 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1948 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1949 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1952 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1953 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1955 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1956 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1957 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1958 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1959 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1961 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1962 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1963 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1964 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1966 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1967 be the same on different OS.
1969 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1972 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1973 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1975 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1978 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1979 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1980 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1981 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1982 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1983 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1986 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1987 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1988 when Exim was called.
1990 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1991 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1993 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1994 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1995 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1996 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1998 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1999 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2000 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2001 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2004 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2005 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2006 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2008 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2009 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2010 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2012 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2015 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2016 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2017 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2018 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2019 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2020 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2021 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2022 values from the SRV records were lost.
2024 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2025 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2026 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2028 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2029 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2030 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2032 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2033 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2034 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2035 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2036 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2037 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2038 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2039 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2040 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2041 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2043 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2044 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2045 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2047 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2048 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2050 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2051 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2052 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2053 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2056 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2057 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2058 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2060 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2061 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2062 PH/23 above applies.
2064 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2065 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2066 (for which there is an explicit test).
2068 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2070 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2071 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2072 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2073 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2074 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2076 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2077 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2078 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2079 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2081 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2082 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2083 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2085 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2087 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2089 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2090 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2091 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2093 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2094 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2095 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2096 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2097 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2099 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2100 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2101 the message gets confusing).
2103 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2104 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2105 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2106 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2108 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2109 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2110 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2111 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2114 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2115 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2116 the different processes.
2118 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2120 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2122 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2123 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2125 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2126 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2128 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2129 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2130 messages matching specified criteria.
2132 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2134 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2135 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2137 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2138 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2139 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2140 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2141 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2142 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2143 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2144 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2145 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2146 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2148 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2149 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2150 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2152 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2154 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2155 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2156 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2157 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2158 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2159 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2160 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2163 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2164 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2166 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2168 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2170 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2172 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2173 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2174 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2175 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2176 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2177 size of the count of files.
2179 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2181 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2184 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2185 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2186 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2187 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2189 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2190 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2191 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2193 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2194 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2195 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2196 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2197 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2199 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2200 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2202 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2203 will now be deprecated.
2205 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2207 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2208 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2209 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2211 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2212 with very large, slow to parse queues
2214 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2216 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2218 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2219 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2220 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2223 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2224 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2225 Sieve code now uses this.
2227 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2228 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2230 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2231 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2233 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2235 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2236 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2237 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2238 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2239 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2241 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2242 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2243 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2244 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2246 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2248 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2250 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2251 is preferred over IPv4.
2253 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2254 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2255 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2256 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2257 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2258 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2259 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2261 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2262 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2263 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2265 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2267 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2268 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2269 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2270 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2271 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2272 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2273 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2274 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2275 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2276 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2277 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2279 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2280 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2281 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2287 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2289 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2290 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2292 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2293 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2294 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2296 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2298 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2301 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2304 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2305 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2306 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2309 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2310 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2312 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2313 inside the third argument.
2315 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2316 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2319 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2320 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2322 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2323 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2325 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2327 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2328 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2331 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2333 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2334 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2335 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2336 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2337 identical. For example:
2339 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2341 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2342 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2343 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2345 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2346 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2347 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2348 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2350 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2351 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2352 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2355 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2357 o fixes some comments
2358 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2359 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2360 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2361 and documents the missing references header update
2365 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2366 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2369 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2370 Electronic Mail") by including:
2372 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2374 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2375 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2376 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2377 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2378 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2380 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2382 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2384 The auto-replied keyword:
2386 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2387 message by an automatic process,
2389 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2391 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2392 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2394 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2395 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2398 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2399 to the default Received: header definition.
2401 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2403 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2404 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2405 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2407 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2408 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2409 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2411 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2412 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2413 and treats the condition as false.
2415 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2417 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2418 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2419 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2420 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2421 not changing the active code.
2423 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2424 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2426 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2427 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2429 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2432 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2433 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2434 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2435 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2436 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2437 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2438 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2439 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2440 the text comparison.
2442 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2443 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2444 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2445 The same fix has been applied.
2451 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2452 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2455 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2456 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2458 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2460 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2461 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2462 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2463 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2464 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2466 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2467 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2468 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2469 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2472 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2480 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2481 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2483 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2485 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2487 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2488 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2489 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2491 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2492 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2493 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2495 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2496 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2499 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2500 ${stat: expansion item.
2502 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2503 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2505 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2506 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2509 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2511 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2514 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2515 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2517 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2519 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2520 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2521 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2522 the end of the subprocess.
2524 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2525 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2526 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2527 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2528 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2530 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2532 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2534 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2535 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2537 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2539 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2541 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2542 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2545 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2547 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2548 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2549 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2551 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2552 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2554 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2555 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2557 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2558 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2560 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2561 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2563 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2564 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2565 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2566 contributed by a Radius user.
2568 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2569 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2571 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2572 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2574 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2577 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2578 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2581 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2582 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2583 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2584 header lines when this was not necessary.
2586 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2588 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2589 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2590 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2593 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2596 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2597 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2598 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2599 return code was incorrect.
2601 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2603 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2605 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2607 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2609 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2610 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2611 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2612 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2613 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2616 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2618 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2619 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2620 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2621 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2622 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2623 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2624 which is clearly wrong.
2626 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2628 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2629 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2630 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2633 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2634 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2636 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2638 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2639 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2641 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2642 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2644 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2645 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2647 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2648 recipients, not senders.
2650 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2651 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2653 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2655 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2657 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2658 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2659 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2660 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2662 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2664 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2665 clock is set back in time.
2667 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2668 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2670 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2671 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2673 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2674 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2677 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2678 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2681 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2684 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2686 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2687 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2688 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2690 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2691 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2692 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2693 helo verification defer as a failure.
2695 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2696 actual error message.
2702 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2704 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2705 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2706 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2707 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2709 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2711 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2712 can still be requested.
2714 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2715 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2716 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2717 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2719 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2720 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2721 circumstances, but probably never did.
2723 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2724 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2725 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2728 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2730 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2731 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2733 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2735 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2737 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2738 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2739 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2740 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2741 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2742 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2744 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2745 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2746 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2747 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2748 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2749 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2751 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2752 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2754 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2755 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2757 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2758 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2760 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2762 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2764 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2766 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2768 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2770 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2772 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2774 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2775 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2776 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2778 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2779 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2780 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2781 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2783 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2784 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2785 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2787 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2788 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2789 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2790 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2792 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2793 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2796 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2797 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2798 should work with maildirs and everything.
2800 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2801 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2803 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2806 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2807 function for BDB 4.3.
2809 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2811 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2812 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2815 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2816 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2817 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2818 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2819 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2820 formatting function string_vformat().
2822 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2823 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2824 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2825 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2826 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2827 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2828 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2829 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2831 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2832 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2835 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2836 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2838 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2839 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2840 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2841 test. It is now used for both.
2843 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2844 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2845 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2846 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2847 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2848 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2850 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2851 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2852 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2855 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2856 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2857 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2859 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2860 experimental DomainKeys support:
2862 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2863 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2864 the control was given.
2866 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2868 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2870 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2872 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2873 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2874 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2877 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2878 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2879 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2880 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2881 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2882 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2885 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2886 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2887 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2888 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2889 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2890 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2892 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2893 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2894 do -d+all out of habit.
2896 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2897 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2900 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2901 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2902 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2903 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2904 record types that Exim uses.
2906 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2907 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2908 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2909 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2910 non-existent file that was broken.
2912 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2913 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2915 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2916 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2917 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2919 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2921 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2922 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2923 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2924 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2925 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2928 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2929 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2930 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2931 at a slight CPU cost.
2933 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2934 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2936 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2939 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2941 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2942 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2948 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2949 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2951 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2953 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2955 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2956 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2958 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2959 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2960 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2961 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2962 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2963 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2966 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2967 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2968 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2969 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2972 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2973 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2974 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2975 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2976 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2977 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2978 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2981 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2982 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2984 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2985 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2986 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2987 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2988 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2989 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2991 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2992 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2993 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2994 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2996 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2999 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3000 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3002 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3003 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3004 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3005 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3008 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3010 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3011 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3013 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3014 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3015 to what was transported.)
3017 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3019 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3020 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3021 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3022 spamd_address settings.
3024 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3025 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3026 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3027 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3028 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3030 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3032 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3033 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3034 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3035 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3036 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3038 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3039 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3041 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3042 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3043 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3044 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3045 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3046 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3047 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3050 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3051 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3052 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3053 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3054 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3055 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3056 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3059 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3061 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3062 driver and ACL definitions.
3064 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3065 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3067 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3068 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3069 understands it better than I do:
3071 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3072 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3074 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3075 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3076 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3077 => three warnings about OTP not working
3078 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3080 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3081 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3082 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3083 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3085 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3086 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3088 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3089 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3090 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3092 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3093 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3096 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3097 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3100 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3101 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3102 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3104 warn !verify = sender
3105 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3107 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3108 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3110 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3112 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3113 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3115 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3116 nomenclature these days.)
3118 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3119 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3121 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3122 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3123 . First host does not offer TLS;
3124 . First host accepts first address;
3125 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3126 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3127 . Second host accepts second address.
3128 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3129 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3132 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3133 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3134 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3135 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3136 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3138 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3139 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3141 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3142 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3144 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3145 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3146 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3148 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3149 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3152 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3154 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3155 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3156 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3157 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3158 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3159 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3160 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3162 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3163 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3164 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3165 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3166 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3168 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3169 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3172 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3173 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3174 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3175 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3176 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3177 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3179 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3181 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3182 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3183 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3184 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3185 printable escape sequences.
3187 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3188 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3191 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3192 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3195 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3196 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3197 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3198 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3199 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3201 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3202 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3203 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3205 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3207 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3208 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3211 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3212 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3213 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3214 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3215 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3216 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3217 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3218 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3219 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3222 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3223 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3224 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3225 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3229 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3230 ----------------------------------------
3232 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3233 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3234 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3235 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3236 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3237 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3240 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3241 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3242 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3243 historical information.
3249 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3251 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3252 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3254 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3255 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3258 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3259 filter fails to execute.
3261 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3262 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3263 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3264 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3265 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3267 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3269 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3270 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3271 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3272 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3274 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3275 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3276 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3277 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3278 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3280 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3282 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3284 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3285 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3286 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3287 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3289 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3290 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3291 sender verification.
3293 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3294 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3296 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3298 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3301 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3302 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3304 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3305 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3307 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3308 information about exactly what failed.
3310 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3312 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3313 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3314 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3316 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3317 It is now set to "smtps".
3319 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3320 ignore_target_hosts.
3322 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3323 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3324 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3325 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3328 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3329 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3330 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3332 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3333 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3334 wake it up if nothing else does.
3336 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3337 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3338 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3341 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3342 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3344 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3346 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3347 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3348 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3349 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3350 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3351 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3352 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3353 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3355 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3356 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3357 than one IP address.
3359 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3360 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3361 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3362 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3364 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3365 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3366 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3367 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3368 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3371 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3372 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3373 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3374 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3376 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3377 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3380 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3381 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3382 $sender_host_address.
3384 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3385 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3386 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3387 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3388 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3391 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3393 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3394 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3396 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3397 just the host names, not the priorities.
3399 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3400 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3401 controlled by a keyword.
3403 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3404 multiple records are returned.
3406 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3407 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3410 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3412 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3413 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3415 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3416 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3417 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3419 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3421 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3423 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3425 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3426 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3427 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3428 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3429 because the tests only now provoked it.
3431 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3432 (this can affect the format of dates).
3434 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3435 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3436 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3437 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3439 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3441 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3442 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3443 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3444 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3446 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3447 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3448 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3450 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3453 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3454 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3455 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3456 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3457 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3458 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3461 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3462 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3463 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3466 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3467 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3468 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3470 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3471 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3472 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3473 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3474 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3475 so I produce this patch..."
3477 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3478 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3481 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3482 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3483 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3484 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3487 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3489 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3490 long debug lines gets shown.
3492 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3493 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3495 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3497 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3498 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3499 of $primary_hostname.
3501 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3502 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3503 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3504 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3505 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3506 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3507 by change 4.50/55 above.
3509 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3510 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3511 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3512 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3513 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3514 running as the user.
3517 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3518 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3519 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3522 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3523 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3525 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3526 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3527 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3528 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3529 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3531 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3532 This has been fixed.
3534 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3535 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3536 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3537 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3540 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3542 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3543 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3544 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3545 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3547 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3548 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3550 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3551 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3552 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3554 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3555 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3556 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3559 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3560 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3561 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3563 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3564 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3565 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3566 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3568 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3569 during host lookups.
3571 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3572 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3574 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3576 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3577 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3578 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3579 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3580 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3583 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3584 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3586 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3587 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3588 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3590 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3592 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3593 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3594 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3595 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3596 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3597 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3600 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3601 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3602 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3603 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3604 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3606 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3609 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3611 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3612 "vacation" handling.
3614 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3615 OS variants using glibc.
3617 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3620 ----------------------------------------------------
3621 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3622 ----------------------------------------------------
3628 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3629 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3632 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3633 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3636 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3637 filter fails to execute.
3639 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3640 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3641 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3642 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3643 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3645 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3646 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3647 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3648 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3650 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3651 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3652 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3653 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3654 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3656 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3658 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3659 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3660 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3661 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3663 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3664 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3665 sender verification.
3667 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3668 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3670 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3671 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3673 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3674 ignore_target_hosts.
3676 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3677 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3678 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3679 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3682 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3683 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3684 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3686 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3687 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3688 wake it up if nothing else does.
3690 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3691 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3692 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3695 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3696 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3698 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3700 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3701 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3704 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3705 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3708 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3709 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3710 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3711 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3712 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3715 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3716 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3719 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3720 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3721 $sender_host_address.
3723 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3725 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3726 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3727 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3729 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3732 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3733 (this can affect the format of dates).
3735 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3736 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3737 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3738 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3740 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3741 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3742 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3744 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3745 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3746 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3747 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3749 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3750 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3751 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3753 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3756 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3757 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3758 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3759 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3760 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3761 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3764 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3765 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3766 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3767 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3770 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3771 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3772 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3773 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3774 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3775 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3776 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3778 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3779 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3780 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3781 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3782 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3783 running as the user.
3786 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3787 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3788 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3791 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3792 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3793 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3794 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3795 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3797 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3798 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3799 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3800 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3803 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3804 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3805 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3806 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3807 because the tests only now provoked it.
3813 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3814 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3815 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3816 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3817 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3818 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3819 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3821 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3822 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3825 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3827 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3829 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3830 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3833 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3834 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3835 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3836 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3837 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3839 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3840 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3842 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3844 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3846 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3849 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3850 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3852 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3853 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3854 affecting debugging statements).
3856 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3858 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3859 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3860 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3861 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3862 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3863 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3864 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3865 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3866 after the received time, and all would be well.
3868 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3869 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3870 condition in an expansion string.
3872 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3874 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3875 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3876 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3877 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3878 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3879 job under whatever limits there are.
3881 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3883 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3886 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3887 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3888 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3889 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3892 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3893 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3894 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3895 binary data in such strings.
3897 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3899 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3900 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3901 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3902 failure, which is pointless.
3904 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3906 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3908 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3909 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3910 Sender: header lines.
3912 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3913 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3914 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3916 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3917 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3918 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3919 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3920 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3923 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3924 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3925 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3926 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3927 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3929 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3930 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3931 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3934 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3935 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3937 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3938 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3940 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3942 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3944 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3946 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3949 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3951 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3953 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3954 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3955 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3956 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3958 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3959 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3965 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3966 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3967 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3969 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3970 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3971 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3972 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3973 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3974 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3976 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3977 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3978 verification failure".
3980 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3981 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3982 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3983 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3985 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3986 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3987 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3988 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3989 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3990 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3991 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3992 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3993 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3994 treated as a timeout.
3996 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3997 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3998 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3999 not set for Exim filters).
4001 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4002 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4003 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4005 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4007 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4008 try to make them clearer.
4010 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4011 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4013 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4015 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4017 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4018 only the Cygwin environment.
4020 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4021 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4022 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4023 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4024 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4026 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4027 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4028 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4029 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4030 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4031 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4032 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4034 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4035 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4037 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4039 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4040 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4041 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4043 To: susanne@some.where
4045 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4046 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4047 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4048 of addresses in From: header lines).
4050 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4051 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4052 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4054 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4055 treated as non-personal.
4057 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4058 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4060 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4062 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4064 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4065 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4066 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4068 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4069 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4071 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4072 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4073 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4074 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4075 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4076 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4078 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4079 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4080 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4081 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4082 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4083 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4084 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4085 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4087 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4089 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4090 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4092 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4093 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4094 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4096 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4097 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4099 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4100 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4101 rather than long int.
4103 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4105 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4111 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4112 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4113 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4114 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4115 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4116 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4122 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4123 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4125 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4126 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4127 socklen_t is defined.
4129 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4132 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4135 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4136 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4137 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4138 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4139 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4141 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4142 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4143 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4144 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4146 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4147 of flapping under certain conditions.
4149 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4150 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4151 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4153 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4155 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4157 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4158 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4159 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4160 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4162 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4163 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4164 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4165 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4166 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4167 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4168 preserved with the message after it was received.
4170 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4171 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4172 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4173 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4174 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4175 test suite worked just fine.
4177 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4178 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4179 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4181 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4182 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4185 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4186 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4187 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4188 does not fully solve it.
4190 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4191 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4192 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4193 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4194 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4196 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4197 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4198 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4200 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4201 string, for example:
4203 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4205 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4206 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4207 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4208 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4209 the routers could not see them.
4211 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4212 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4214 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4215 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4218 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4219 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4220 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4221 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4222 that needed quoting.
4224 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4225 was not being matched caselessly.
4227 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4230 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4231 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4232 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4233 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4234 when use_sender is false.
4236 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4238 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4240 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4242 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4243 the configuration file.
4245 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4246 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4248 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4250 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4251 bytes in the message body.
4253 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4254 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4257 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4259 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4261 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4262 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4263 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4264 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4271 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4272 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4274 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4275 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4276 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4277 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4278 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4280 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4281 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4283 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4284 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4285 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4287 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4288 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4289 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4291 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4294 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4295 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4296 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4297 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4298 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4299 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4300 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4306 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4307 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4308 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4309 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4310 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4311 default (and expected) setting.
4313 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4314 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4315 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4316 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4318 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4319 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4321 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4324 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4325 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4326 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4327 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4328 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4329 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4331 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4332 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4333 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4335 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4336 part (NOT match_host).
4338 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4340 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4341 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4342 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4343 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4344 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4345 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4346 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4347 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4348 the same named file.
4350 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4351 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4354 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4355 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4356 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4357 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4360 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4361 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4362 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4364 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4366 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4368 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4370 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4371 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4373 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4374 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4375 before starting the TLS session.
4377 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4379 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4380 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4382 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4383 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4384 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4385 colon in the middle).
4391 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4392 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4393 multiple configurations are in use.
4395 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4396 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4397 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4398 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4399 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4400 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4402 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4403 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4405 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4406 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4407 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4409 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4410 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4413 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4414 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4416 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4418 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4419 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4421 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4429 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4430 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4431 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4432 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4433 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4435 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4438 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4439 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4440 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4441 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4442 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4443 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4445 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4446 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4447 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4448 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4449 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4450 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4451 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4454 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4455 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4456 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4457 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4458 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4460 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4462 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4463 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4464 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4466 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4468 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4469 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4470 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4473 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4474 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4476 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4477 Three changes have been made:
4479 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4480 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4481 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4482 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4483 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4485 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4488 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4489 the modified behaviour.
4495 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4498 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4499 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4501 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4502 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4503 try to track down a specific problem.
4505 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4506 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4507 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4509 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4512 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4513 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4514 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4515 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4516 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4517 some earlier ones do not.
4519 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4521 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4522 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4523 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4524 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4525 address literals are enabled, of course).
4527 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4529 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4530 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4531 by a command such as
4535 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4537 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4539 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4540 remained set. It is now erased.
4542 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4543 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4545 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4546 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4547 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4548 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4549 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4550 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4551 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4552 appropriate error code.
4554 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4555 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4556 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4557 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4558 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4559 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4561 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4562 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4563 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4565 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4566 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4567 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4568 terminate the header.
4570 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4571 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4572 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4574 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4575 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4576 (4.30/29). In particular:
4578 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4581 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4582 to write a maildirsize file.
4584 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4585 the transport, the new value overrides.
4587 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4590 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4591 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4592 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4595 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4596 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4597 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4600 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4601 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4602 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4604 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4605 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4608 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4609 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4610 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4612 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4614 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4616 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4618 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4619 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4622 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4623 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4624 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4625 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4626 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4627 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4628 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4631 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4632 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4633 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4634 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4635 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4638 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4639 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4640 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4641 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4642 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4643 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4644 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4645 cached value only when the same options are set.
4647 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4649 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4650 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4651 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4652 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4653 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4655 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4656 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4657 it is clearly obsolete.
4659 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4662 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4663 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4664 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4667 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4668 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4669 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4670 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4671 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4673 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4674 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4675 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4676 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4678 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4680 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4682 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4683 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4686 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4687 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4688 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4689 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4690 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4691 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4694 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4695 with the -f command-line option.
4697 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4698 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4699 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4700 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4701 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4702 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4704 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4705 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4708 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4709 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4710 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4711 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4712 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4713 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4714 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4715 buffer is too small.
4717 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4718 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4720 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4721 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4722 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4723 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4724 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4725 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4726 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4727 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4728 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4730 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4731 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4732 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4734 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4735 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4738 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4739 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4740 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4741 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4742 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4744 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4745 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4746 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4747 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4750 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4752 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4754 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4755 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4757 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4758 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4759 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4761 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4762 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4763 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4764 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4765 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4767 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4768 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4769 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4770 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4771 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4772 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4773 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4775 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4776 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4777 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4778 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4779 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4780 the test of how many are available.
4782 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4783 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4784 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4785 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4786 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4787 new message is started.
4789 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4790 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4792 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4793 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4795 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4796 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4797 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4800 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4801 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4802 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4803 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4804 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4805 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4806 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4808 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4809 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4810 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4811 interpreted as octal.
4813 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4816 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4817 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4818 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4819 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4820 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4821 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4823 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4824 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4825 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4826 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4828 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4829 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4830 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4831 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4833 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4834 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4837 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4838 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4840 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4842 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4843 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4844 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4845 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4847 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4848 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4849 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4850 supplied", which is not helpful.
4852 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4853 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4854 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4856 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4857 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4858 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4859 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4860 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4861 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4862 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4863 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4865 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4866 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4867 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4868 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4869 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4871 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4872 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4873 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4874 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4875 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4876 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4878 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4879 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4880 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4882 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4884 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4885 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4886 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4889 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4891 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4892 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4893 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4894 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4895 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4896 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4897 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4898 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4900 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4901 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4902 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4903 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4904 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4906 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4909 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4910 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4911 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4912 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4913 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4914 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4915 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4916 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4917 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4923 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4924 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4925 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4927 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4930 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4931 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4932 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4934 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4935 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4936 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4937 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4938 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4939 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4941 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4942 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4943 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4944 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4945 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4946 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4947 the Exim test suite.
4949 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4950 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4951 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4952 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4954 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4955 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4956 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4957 specify it in this variable.
4959 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4960 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4961 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4962 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4964 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4965 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4966 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4967 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4969 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4970 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4971 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4972 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4973 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4975 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4977 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4980 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4981 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4982 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4983 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4984 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4986 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4987 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4989 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4990 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4991 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4992 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4993 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4995 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4996 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4998 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4999 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5000 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5002 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5003 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5005 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5006 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5008 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5009 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5010 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5012 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5013 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5015 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5016 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5017 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5018 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5020 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5022 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5023 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5024 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5025 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5027 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5029 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5030 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5032 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5034 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5035 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5036 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5037 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5038 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5039 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5041 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5043 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5044 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5047 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5049 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5050 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5052 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5053 550 Sender verify failed
5055 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5056 the final line of the response.
5058 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5059 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5060 all other user lookups.
5062 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5065 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5066 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5067 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5068 result into an int without checking.
5070 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5071 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5072 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5074 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5075 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5076 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5077 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5079 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5082 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5083 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5085 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5086 to the empty sender.
5088 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5089 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5090 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5091 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5092 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5093 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5094 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5097 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5098 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5099 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5100 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5103 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5104 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5106 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5109 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5110 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5112 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5114 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5115 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5118 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5119 as soon as it is encountered.
5121 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5123 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5126 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5127 recognizes a tab character.
5129 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5130 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5131 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5132 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5134 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5136 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5139 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5141 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5143 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5144 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5147 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5148 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5149 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5150 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5151 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5153 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5154 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5156 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5157 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5158 list (.included file names were always shown).
5160 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5161 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5162 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5165 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5166 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5168 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5170 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5172 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5174 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5175 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5176 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5177 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5178 failures to open the logs.
5180 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5181 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5182 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5183 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5184 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5185 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5186 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5192 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5193 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5194 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5197 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5198 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5199 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5201 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5202 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5203 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5205 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5206 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5207 causing some misleading effects.
5209 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5210 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5211 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5213 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5214 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5215 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5216 queue-runner function directly.
5222 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5225 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5226 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5227 was always written to the default place.
5229 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5230 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5231 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5233 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5235 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5237 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5238 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5239 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5241 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5242 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5245 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5246 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5247 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5249 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5250 command line option is disabled.
5252 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5253 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5255 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5257 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5259 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5260 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5262 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5264 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5265 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5266 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5267 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5268 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5269 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5271 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5272 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5275 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5276 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5278 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5279 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5281 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5282 received was valid base64.
5284 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5285 name of the variable that was being set.
5287 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5289 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5290 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5291 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5292 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5293 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5294 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5296 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5298 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5299 nor realm was specified.
5301 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5302 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5303 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5304 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5306 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5307 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5308 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5310 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5311 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5312 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5314 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5315 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5316 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5317 some systems use these upper case variants.
5319 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5320 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5321 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5322 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5324 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5326 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5327 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5329 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5330 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5333 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5335 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5336 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5337 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5338 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5340 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5343 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5344 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5345 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5347 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5348 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5350 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5351 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5352 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5353 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5355 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5356 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5357 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5359 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5361 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5362 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5363 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5364 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5367 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5368 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5369 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5371 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5373 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5374 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5376 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5377 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5379 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5380 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5381 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5382 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5383 when emails are that large.
5390 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5391 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5393 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5394 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5395 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5397 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5398 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5399 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5401 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5402 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5403 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5404 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5405 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5407 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5408 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5409 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5410 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5411 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5414 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5415 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5416 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5417 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5418 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5419 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5420 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5421 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5422 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5423 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5424 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5425 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5426 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5427 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5429 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5430 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5433 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5434 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5435 error should be diagnosed.
5437 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5438 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5439 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5440 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5441 appeared instead of "NULL".
5443 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5444 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5445 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5446 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5447 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5448 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5451 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5452 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5453 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5459 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5460 or receiver verification errors.
5462 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5465 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5466 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5467 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5468 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5470 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5471 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5472 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5473 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5474 shouldn't happen again.
5476 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5477 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5478 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5480 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5481 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5483 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5485 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5486 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5488 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5489 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5492 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5493 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5494 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5496 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5497 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5498 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5499 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5501 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5502 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5503 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5504 to define what should happen).
5506 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5507 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5508 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5510 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5512 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5514 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5515 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5517 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5518 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5519 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5520 structure in all cases.
5522 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5523 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5524 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5525 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5527 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5528 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5531 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5532 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5534 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5535 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5537 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5538 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5539 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5541 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5542 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5543 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5545 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5546 the book and for uniformity.
5548 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5550 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5551 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5552 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5553 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5554 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5555 non-existent command as the problem.
5557 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5558 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5559 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5561 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5563 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5564 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5565 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5567 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5568 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5569 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5570 timestamps using strftime().
5572 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5573 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5575 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5576 transport-time rewrites.
5578 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5579 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5580 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5581 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5583 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5584 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5586 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5587 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5588 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5589 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5592 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5593 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5594 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5595 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5596 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5597 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5598 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5600 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5601 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5602 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5603 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5604 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5606 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5607 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5608 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5609 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5610 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5611 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5612 remaining text gets split now.
5614 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5615 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5616 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5617 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5619 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5620 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5621 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5622 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5625 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5626 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5627 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5628 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5629 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5630 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5631 passed through if needed.
5633 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5634 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5635 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5636 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5637 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5638 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5640 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5641 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5642 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5643 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5644 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5646 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5647 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5648 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5649 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5650 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5652 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5653 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5656 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5657 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5658 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5659 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5660 mayhem of various kinds.
5662 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5663 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5664 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5665 the right test for positive values.
5667 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5668 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5669 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5670 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5671 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5672 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5673 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5674 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5675 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5676 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5679 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5682 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5683 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5686 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5687 the existing equality matching.
5689 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5690 dealing with inode numbers.
5692 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5693 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5694 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5696 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5697 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5698 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5699 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5702 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5703 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5704 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5705 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5706 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5707 relay addresses has also been removed.
5709 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5711 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5712 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5713 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5715 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5716 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5717 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5718 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5719 processing applies to CR:
5721 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5722 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5724 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5725 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5726 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5727 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5729 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5730 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5731 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5733 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5734 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5735 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5736 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5737 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5738 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5741 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5744 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5745 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5746 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5747 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5750 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5752 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5754 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5756 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5757 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5758 not considered personal.
5760 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5762 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5764 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5766 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5767 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5768 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5769 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5770 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5771 header lines, and spool format errors.
5773 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5774 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5775 for more flexibility.
5777 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5778 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5779 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5781 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5784 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5785 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5786 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5787 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5788 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5789 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5790 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5791 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5792 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5794 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5795 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5796 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5797 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5798 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5799 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5800 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5802 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5803 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5804 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5806 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5807 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5808 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5809 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5810 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5811 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5812 instead of killing the process with assert().
5814 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5815 than Unicode encoding.
5817 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5818 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5819 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5820 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5822 77. Added process_log_path.
5824 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5825 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5827 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5828 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5830 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5831 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5832 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5834 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5835 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5836 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5837 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5838 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5841 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5842 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5845 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5846 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5847 they will be used during message reception.
5853 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.